Letters to the Editor
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Clinton will get no help on her debts
I believe the two sides were talking about helping her with her debts, but if she's going to use the cash she has left to further damage Obama then screw it.
Plus, most of the money she owes goes to Penn. Screw him too.
She's got enough big mouth supporters on this web site, let them pay her debts. I'll be damned if I want a dime of my funds going to pay Mark Penn and continue Clinton's divisive slash and burn tactics.
Again, particularly after this last bit of foot in mouth disease, don't give her a dime. It's like she just can't help herself.
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It's ok to talk about gender but not race? Unfair!
Replace every mention of "white" in that quote with "woman" (or "man" for that matter) and this wouldn't even be a topic for discussion.
It's ridiculous that when the subject of race comes up it is the proverbial hot potato that generates volumes of articles like this one. But it seems anyone can say anything they like about gender - negatives about women, in particular - and few seem to care.
What is wrong with us that we are so scared of discussing race that the mere mention has the zealots up in arms??
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Lemon Law
It's too bad there's no "lemon law" relating to political candidates. I think many prior "purchasers" of Hillary would like to return their vote for her for a refund. Joe's article reads like the pain of someone who fell in love with the lemon and is having a hard time returning it.
In attempting to establish Clinton bona fides, Joe writes
The Clintons spent years working to defeat Johnson and everything he represented, and he repaid them with years of plotting, scheming and smearing as a cog in the Arkansas Project.
Um, the "Arkansas Project," as in "the project financed by Richard Mellon Scaife," that very same Richard Mellon Scaife with whom Hillary was seen schmoozing right before the PA primary, and whose paper was the only one in the state to endorse her?
While the focus of Joe's comments is on race, the "Arkansas Project" bit should provide more proof that the Clintons will do ANYTHING to return to power.
Joe, you wrote a book on this. Don't let the Clintons take your integrity like they've stolen your heart.
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Everything is racist, and nothing is sexist, and Homey the Clown will be Prez
Has the whole world lost its collective mind? NOTHING Hillary Clinton has said or done is racist. NOT ONE DAMN THING. However,every nuance, every other word, the media bias, and most blogs are SEXIST beyond belief. Other than one or two comments, and the SNL skit, Hillary decided to not go there. Meanwhile, Obama is the walking, talking embodiment of the race card and meanwhile Rome burns while his subjects debate Paris Hilton's breast implants.
It is not racist to talk openly about race, and while it is racist for 99% of black voters to vote for Obama it is not racist for the majority of white middle class voters to vote for Hillary Clinton. WHY you ask? Easy, because Hillary's past record and current positions support them economically. She is a strong candidate with a proven track record of supporting them. Meanwhile, Obama has a horrific track record of doing anything for lower/middle class ESPECIALLY blacks, thus since it could not be due to track record it must be race. AND do NOT give me that shit about inspiration. Songs are inspirationaly, but I'm not going to vote one into the White House.
Finally, all Obama and his supporters and the DNC has done is make the race war take center stage, and the losers are going to be everyone---ESPECIALLY people of color. My sadness grows every minute :(
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Those wonderful hard working white folks
have given us 2 terms of the worst president in US history. A candidate who claims she deserves the nomination because the demographic group that consistently ends up voting for the GOP candidate in the general, against their own interests, and then whine about how fucked they and will not vote for a non-white candidate, is pathetic and doesn't belong in the Democratic party. it's time for Clinton to stop pretending she's a Democrat.
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Proud Prancing Idiot
Homey don't play that!
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@ sugarbeet
Sured it would be an issue.
If Barack Obama said that men, hard working Americans, are supporting him and not Clinton you're telling me you wouldn't infer he's saying women aren't hard working Americans?
Here's her quote:
..'polls that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hardworking Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.’
Obama's support from hard working Americans is weakening? So what do you call working class blacks voting and college grad whites that voted for Obama?
It may have been a foot in mouth thing, bit so was Obama's bitter statement, and look at the hay she made from that.
My feeling is this is going to hurt her with all Democrats, including "hard working" Democrats. No one likes to be told that they're racist, and the only one saying whites won't vote for Obama because he's black is the Clinton campaign.
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Electability is code
Do any Clinton supporters here believe it is possible for any black man or woman to become President of the United States? Somehow it sounds like many of you feel it's not possible. I acknowledge that it's tough but I think it's possible. In all honesty, I'd be voting for Obama whether I thought it was possible or not, I like the man and I think he'll be a great President.
Do you think Hillary Clinton believes it is possible for a black man or woman to be President of the United States? I think she does but her statements to super delegates about "electability" don't support that and that's why I think she's being divisive. She's using electability as a wedge. Electability is a fair issue but to use it on Obama who is leading in these primaries smacks of divisiveness.
If you think it's possible for a black man or woman to become President, then you seem to be saying "just not this particular black man." That's not racist, you just don't like Obama. Fair enough, although I have a hard time believing it.
Just like many Obama supporters are saying we'd be happy with a woman, just not this particular one. No sexism, we just don't like Hillary. Fair enough but you don't believe us.
In our eyes, your support for HIllary blinds you to what we consider her liabilities: her divisiveness, her Iraq war vote, her support of Kyle/Lieberman, her Iran statement, her flag burning views, and the fact that she's run a poor campaign. Those things are not troll-driven cruft, they just are.
In your eyes, our support of Obama blinds us to what exactly? All of this guilt by association stuff just doesn't fly and that game can be played with Hillary too but why? To what end?
If you don't think it's possible for a black man or woman to become President and you're a Democrat, that's a fair reason to question Obama's run, but if you do think it's possible, why not Obama?